<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : marijuana : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Canadian group celebrates marijuana's day]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/17498/1/" /><id>17498</id><summary><![CDATA[Canadian group celebrates marijuana's day]]></summary><issued>2007-04-23T00:44:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-23T00:44:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A group of demonstrators in Toronto rallied for the legalization of marijuana during the unofficial &quot;4-20&quot; holiday, as police looked on.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Get Up, Stand Up: Ammiano Introduces Marijuana Legalization Bill to the Press]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/95979/1/" /><id>95979</id><summary><![CDATA[Get Up, Stand Up: Ammiano Introduces Marijuana Legalization Bill to the Press]]></summary><issued>2009-02-23T15:54:50+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-23T15:54:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Remove all penalties under California law for the cultivation, transportation, sale, purchase, possession, and use of marijuana, natural THC and paraphernalia by persons over the age of 21,&quot; &quot;prohibit local and state law enforcement officials from enforcing federal marijuana laws (more on that later)&quot; and establish a fee of $50 an ounce on marijuana on top of whatever pot will cost in a legal future.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How Marijuana Became Legal]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132829/1/" /><id>132829</id><summary><![CDATA[How Marijuana Became Legal]]></summary><issued>2009-09-11T16:57:04+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-11T16:57:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Medical marijuana is giving activists a chance to show how a legitimized pot business can work. Is the end of prohibition upon us?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Meet Miss Marijuana Pepsi Sawyer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/98334/1/" /><id>98334</id><summary><![CDATA[Meet Miss Marijuana Pepsi Sawyer]]></summary><issued>2009-03-08T10:33:28+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-08T10:33:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[She was born Marijuana Pepsi Jackson and she is quite proud of her name thank you. It has caused some grief of course but it has also helped her become the successful person she is today.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[9,000 Pounds of Marijuana Found in a School Bus]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/92773/1/" /><id>92773</id><summary><![CDATA[9,000 Pounds of Marijuana Found in a School Bus]]></summary><issued>2009-02-04T19:20:04+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-04T19:20:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The DPS estimates the marijuana is worth $3.9 million retail and says the seizure is the second largest it&#8217;s made during routine traffic enforcement since 1997.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Marijuana Damages DNA and May Cause Cancer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/122619/1/" /><id>122619</id><summary><![CDATA[Marijuana Damages DNA and May Cause Cancer]]></summary><issued>2009-06-13T20:11:57+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-13T20:11:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists are especially concerned about the toxicity of acetaldehyde, present in both tobacco and marijuana. However, it has been difficult to measure DNA damage from acetaldehyde with conventional tests.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Here's how you grow marijuana, officer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35990/1/" /><id>35990</id><summary><![CDATA[Here's how you grow marijuana, officer]]></summary><issued>2007-09-17T17:31:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-17T17:31:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[When police asked an Ohio man about the potted marijuana plant in his front yard, he told them how to grow their own.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[US Supreme Court: Federal marijuana laws do not preempt state laws.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/83469/1/" /><id>83469</id><summary><![CDATA[US Supreme Court: Federal marijuana laws do not preempt state laws.]]></summary><issued>2008-12-03T11:10:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-03T11:10:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In 2005, Felix Kha had 8 grams of medical marijuana confiscated by police in California despite the fact that he had a license to have it. The police cited federal statutes. California's supreme court ruled in favor of Kha. The US supreme court refused to hear an appeal.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Handicapped Man's Wheelchair Seized Over Medical Marijuana]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/132372/1/" /><id>132372</id><summary><![CDATA[Handicapped Man's Wheelchair Seized Over Medical Marijuana]]></summary><issued>2009-09-04T15:21:13+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-04T15:21:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Canadian care home resident with full body paralysis was confined to his bed against his will after his wheelchair was seized by caregivers - all because he smokes medical marijuana to relieve his Multiple Sclerosis.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Most Marijuana-Friendly Candidates: Ron Paul, Mike Gravel]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/27324/1/" /><id>27324</id><summary><![CDATA[Most Marijuana-Friendly Candidates: Ron Paul, Mike Gravel]]></summary><issued>2007-07-13T15:43:02+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-13T15:43:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Gravel (D-AK) are the most marijuana friendly 2008 Presidential candidates, according to an analysis by the Marijuana Policy Project.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[No Need To Blaze Up - Your Brain Makes It's Own Marijuana]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108737/1/" /><id>108737</id><summary><![CDATA[No Need To Blaze Up - Your Brain Makes It's Own Marijuana]]></summary><issued>2009-04-21T18:35:15+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-21T18:35:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In an article not entirely unsurprisingly published yesterday*, New York scientists have an announced their discovery that the human brain makes proteins that act in a similar way to marijuana.  Amongst other things, this would explain why we have marijuana receptors in the first place.<br/><br/><br/>*That won't make much sense after a few days.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[US Marijuana Map and a 'lighter look' at some other US Health Stats ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/127316/1/" /><id>127316</id><summary><![CDATA[US Marijuana Map and a 'lighter look' at some other US Health Stats ]]></summary><issued>2009-07-10T14:09:56+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-10T14:09:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What state has the highest marijuana use (as well as the highest rate for chlamydia)? This and other questions that have been plaguing you for some time now can finally be answered.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;It is a gift from God&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/39084/1/" /><id>39084</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;It is a gift from God&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-10-21T15:45:58+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-21T15:45:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Marijuana Policy Project honored Hugh Hefner March 30th for being a pioneer in the fight for the legalization of medicinal marijuana. Everybody was high.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Canadian pot activist and seed merchant at center of North American marijuana debate]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/118795/1/" /><id>118795</id><summary><![CDATA[Canadian pot activist and seed merchant at center of North American marijuana debate]]></summary><issued>2009-05-31T14:30:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-31T14:30:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Known as the Prince of Pot, Mark Emery has sold millions of marijuana seeds around the world by mail over the past decade. In doing so, he has drawn the attention of U.S. drug officials, who want him extradited to Seattle. Emery has agreed to plead guilty in Seattle to one count of marijuana distribution in exchange for dismissal of all other counts, and the U.S. District Attorney is pressing for a sentence of five to eight years in a U.S. prison.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Violence and Marijuana Grows]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108248/1/" /><id>108248</id><summary><![CDATA[Violence and Marijuana Grows]]></summary><issued>2009-04-19T23:17:25+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-19T23:17:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Humboldt County, California, is well known for its marijuana quality and culture.  It being the 4/20 weekend, let us look at one of the major issues involved in home pot gardens: home invasion, robbery, and violence.  (Always read the comments... full of &quot;win&quot;).]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why is Marijuana Illegal?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/47689/1/" /><id>47689</id><summary><![CDATA[Why is Marijuana Illegal?]]></summary><issued>2008-01-18T12:15:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-18T12:15:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mr. President, It's Time To Talk About Marijuana]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/106207/1/" /><id>106207</id><summary><![CDATA[Mr. President, It's Time To Talk About Marijuana]]></summary><issued>2009-04-10T07:58:21+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-10T07:58:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In a recent town hall meeting, President Obama, when asked about the legalization of marijuana, nervously laughed and briefly dismissed the idea, which had been advanced as a way to help pull out of our current economic doldrums. In doing so, the President was following conventional wisdom when it comes to marijuana -- that to openly support reform or repeal of harsh anti-pot laws is tantamount to political suicide.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130143/1/" /><id>130143</id><summary><![CDATA[Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?]]></summary><issued>2009-08-07T12:35:22+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-07T12:35:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sure, all Americans know that marijuana is illegal, and most are aware that the government purposely spreads misleading information about the drug&#8217;s allegedly adverse effects. But how many of you have stopped to think about the ways that other entities are directly or indirectly involved in maintaining cannabis prohibition? After all, the government could not uphold the status quo all by itself. It requires the assistance of private and public employers, athletic associations, and the mainstream media.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[AMA Acknowledges Medicinal Benefits of Marijuana]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/135834/1/" /><id>135834</id><summary><![CDATA[AMA Acknowledges Medicinal Benefits of Marijuana]]></summary><issued>2009-11-19T10:24:40+01:00</issued><modified>2009-11-19T10:24:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For 72 years, the AMA has kept their stance on marijuana constant, classifying it as a Schedule I type substance with no medical value.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Santa Cruz pot dealer calls police after marijuana stolen]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/35018/1/" /><id>35018</id><summary><![CDATA[Santa Cruz pot dealer calls police after marijuana stolen]]></summary><issued>2007-09-08T12:12:49+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-08T12:12:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A marijuana dealer telephoned Santa Cruz police after armed thieves sole his quarter-pound stash of pot.]]></content></entry></items></xml>